tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post2809791543002174002..comments2019-01-12T16:25:48.211-06:00Comments on The Nuclear Green Revolution: Al Gore's poorly informed account of nuclear proliferationCharles Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-56387425747260025182009-03-28T03:05:00.000-05:002009-03-28T03:05:00.000-05:00Warren brings up an interesting point. It would be...Warren brings up an interesting point. It would be far easier for a terrorist group to develop a chemical or biological WMD than it would be a nuclear device. Yet, these threats are not qualified in contrast to any potential proliferation risk by the increased use of nuclear energy.<BR/><BR/>In many respects, efforts to develop and deploy chemical or biological weapon would be easier to hide than a nuclear weapon development program.Jason Ribeirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06863185203119704249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-41507608285408628432009-03-27T22:49:00.000-05:002009-03-27T22:49:00.000-05:00Al Gore is a Club of Rome Lackey and a TOOL of Fos...Al Gore is a Club of Rome Lackey and a TOOL of Fossil Fuel Interests – doing his best to make sure that a global energy catastrophe will occur in another decade or two, how do you think he managed to get a Noble Prize for doing nothing of significance?<BR/><BR/>The fact is that in the near future, non-fission or pure fusion weapons will be developed. Nuclear fission will no longer have a connection with weapons. And once the methods of pure-fusion weapons are developed, the cat will be out of the bag, and any nation state will be able to develop fusion weapons without bothering with fission triggers. There’s a discussion at Atomic Insights Blog about why the US Gov’t is spending billions on laser fusion. In actual fact, it’s all about developing the technology for pure fusion weapons. The DOE is also investing in small nuclear particle accelerators – the purpose of which is developing anti-matter production factories. Anti-matter being one of several techniques of creating pure fusion weapons.<BR/><BR/>Personally, I would be much more worried about the explosive developments in genetic engineering and their application to the development of biological weapons. At least with nuclear weapons, it is easy to find the source of any nefarious weapon, and therein payback is a bitch. But with biologicals, destruction will be far greater and finding the source may be impossible. The Fed’s took years to find one lone researcher (after chasing after the wrong guy) – one of their own people – who caused great chaos using a U.S. Gov’t botulism strain – which he fortunately didn’t choose to spread into a crowded shopping malls or sports stadiums, which he easily could have done. Meanwhile the agricultural markets and rural farms in Southeast Asia are being operated in a way that is GUARANTEED to create a killer flu within a decade or two – likely 500 million will die as a result. The Greenies seem to by quite happy with the absolute lack of effort to prevent the upcoming killer flu – just as they stood back while HIV needlessly progressed into an epidemic, when it could have been stifled in its early stages.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.mapw.org.au/files/downloads/Barnaby" REL="nofollow"> Some discussion of New Non-Fission Nuclear Weapons Here </A>Warren Heathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-38206784627690765482009-03-27T20:19:00.000-05:002009-03-27T20:19:00.000-05:00The gun type bomb is no great technological challe...The gun type bomb is no great technological challenge, but enriching U-235 is. Yet the South Africans proved that it was possible for even a small country could do it. Given the relatively low cost South African road to nuclear weapons, it is absurd to argue that blocking LFTR development would prevent rogue states and terrorists from developing nuclear weapons.Charles Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-17431479791462760822009-03-27T19:44:00.000-05:002009-03-27T19:44:00.000-05:00By way of reply to Alex P, I offer the following l...By way of reply to Alex P, I offer the following link:<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_FuchsFinrodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02447747229391757964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-6932454784518714922009-03-27T19:23:00.000-05:002009-03-27T19:23:00.000-05:00It is really not hard.I can't find it online but I...<I>It is really not hard.</I><BR/><BR/>I can't find it online but I think John Coster-Mullen -- the truck-driver-come-nuclear historian fixated on the exact details of Little Boy's design -- suggested that the secret of the bomb <I>is</I> that it is so easy to make.<BR/><BR/>Probably not a unique idea. George Orwell wondered about the issue:<BR/><BR/>http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part33.html<BR/><BR/>At the time he wrote that essay -- late 1945, and I think the first written use of 'cold war' -- only a few countries could indeed pull it off.<BR/><BR/>Nowadays, though, we have truck-drivers reverse engineering the things.mdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-47500932038251937842009-03-27T18:38:00.000-05:002009-03-27T18:38:00.000-05:00The Soviets got the secret, then the French figure...The Soviets got the secret, then the French figured it out, and then the Chinese, and then the Israelis, with a little help from the French. Then the Indians, then the South Africans who were not suppose to get it, but worked it out on their own, then the Paks, and the North Koreans. It is really not hard. There is no mystery. It is not expensive.Charles Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-89889769735730663482009-03-27T16:58:00.000-05:002009-03-27T16:58:00.000-05:00" The United States lost the war against nuclear p..." The United States lost the war against nuclear proliferation in the early Forties "<BR/><BR/>Interesting, why do you believe this, because US used the bombes against civil targets during ww2 or because they losed the industrial secrets ?Alex Pnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-19383785214959232142009-03-27T10:35:00.000-05:002009-03-27T10:35:00.000-05:001943-1945. The Soviets had their spies, knew all ...1943-1945. The Soviets had their spies, knew all about what we were doing.Charles Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-78812570438103381292009-03-27T10:28:00.000-05:002009-03-27T10:28:00.000-05:00The United States lost the war against nuclear pro...The United States lost the war against nuclear proliferation in the early Forties.Finrodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02447747229391757964noreply@blogger.com